Media Advisory: Wake Forest marks 50th Anniversary of integration decision
Categories: University Announcements
Faces of Courage kickoff
On April 27, 1962, trustees voted to end racial segregation at Wake Forest and the University became the first major private college in the South to integrate. Fifty years later, Wake Forest kicks off “Faces of Courage,” a yearlong celebration of the historic decision and how it has shaped the University.
Categories: Happening at Wake, Inclusive Excellence
Phi Beta Kappa recognition
On April 18, sixty-two seniors, twenty-three juniors and one alumna were inducted into Wake Forest’s chapter of Phi Beta Kappa — the nations oldest academic honor society.
Categories: Experiential Learning, Happening at Wake, Research & Discovery, University Announcements
Media Advisory: Wake Forest University and Hanes Magnet School students team up to test underwater robots and STEM learning
Categories: University Announcements
Physics student gets NSF fellowship
The National Science Foundation has awarded physics graduate student Katelyn Goetz (’11) one of its prestigious summer travel fellowships. Goetz studies organic semiconductors and plastic-based flexible electronics in the Center for Nanotechnology and Molecular Materials with assistant professor of physics Oana Jurchescu.
Painting desks for local students
Several hundred Wake Forest students welcomed about 50 elementary school students to campus earlier this month to paint their very own desk. WFU students started D.E.S.K. (Discovering Education through Student Knowledge) 12 years ago to provide desks to underprivileged children.
Categories: Community Impact, Experiential Learning, Pro Humanitate
‘Emilie’ illuminates arts, sciences
Earlier this month, Lauren Gunderson’s play, "Emilie: The Marquise Du Châtelet Defends Her Life Tonight," served as the center of gravity for a bright constellation of interdisciplinary campus events illuminating dynamic relationships between the arts and sciences.
Categories: Arts & Culture, Research & Discovery
Our family trees
On April 20, the Arbor Day Foundation honored Wake Forest’s commitment to the care and preservation of its trees with a Tree Campus USA designation. To earn the honor, WFU achieved five core standards for sustainable campus forestry. Read more from Wake Forest Magazine.
Categories: Awards & Recognition, Environment & Sustainability
Liz Lerman’s aesthetic of inquiry
For choreographer and visiting artist Liz Lerman, questions drive her way of thinking. “If you ask a big enough question, you have to engage more than one discipline to answer it,” Lerman told a Wake Forest audience in a talk about how creativity can function as a bridge between art and science.
Categories: Arts & Culture, Research & Discovery, University Announcements
Scholars to explore Hispanic studies
The Department of Romance Languages is hosting a three-day Hispanic Transatlantic Studies symposium that will bring scholars from a variety of countries to campus to present cutting-edge research in history and the humanities.
Categories: Global Wake Forest, Happening at Wake, Research & Discovery